Lois G. Elliott age 86 of Tracy passed away on Thursday, March 6, 2008 at Birchwood Hospice in Hutchinson. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 15th at the Presbyterian Church in Tracy. Visitation will be 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Friday at the Tracy Area Funeral Home, and will continue one hour prior to services at the church on Saturday. Interment is in the Tracy Cemetery. Email condolences may be sent via www.tracyareafuneralhome.com. The Tracy Area Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.

Lois G. Elliott was born August 15, 1921 in Milroy, Minnesota to Earl and Ethel Mitcheltree. She was raised in the Milroy and Tracy area and graduated from Tracy High School in 1939. Lois married Leonard Elliott on April 9, 1945. They lived in Minneota and Tracy until moving to the farm near Balaton where they farmed for 25 years. They then moved to Tracy where she was still residing until recently when she was in Hospice at her daughter’s home and then moved to Birchwood Hospice House in Hutchinson where she passed away. Lois was an active member of the Presbyterian Church in Tracy for many years. She loved crocheting, sewing, gardening, quilting, spending time with her 6 great-grandchildren, 4 grandchildren and most of all having the coffee pot on when her friends and family stopped by.

Lois is survived by her 2 children, Bob (Jean) Elliott of Hutchinson and Bettie (Greg DeWitte) Palmer of Hutchinson; 4 grandchildren: Jennie (Jason) Stutsman of Winsted, Natasha (Ernst) Freyer of Burnsville, Jess (Nikki) Elliott of Savage, Nikki (Todd) Matheson of Winsted; 6 great-grandchildren: Isabelle, Kyleigh, Emma, Porter, Jack, Sam; and numerous other relatives and friends. She is preceded in death by her husband Leonard in 1979; infant daughter Darlene; her parents; and her brother Ausby Mitcheltree. She will be forever in our hearts as a wonderful mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.